Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 04:57:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Josh Lynch <theron@tyme.visi.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: /stand directory Message-ID: <199705180957.EAA00845@tyme.visi.com>
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I'm fairly new to BSD based systems (coming from SCO & Linux which I consider more SVR4 than *BSD) I have a few general ,simple questions: 1. Why are most binaries in the system mutiples of 512bytes? Is this because the filesystem is based on disk blocks (of 512k)? 2. What are all the files in the /stand for/do, they seem awful big and are all the same size, which is kind of odd. (to me anyway :-) ) 3. Where could I find out more about the booting process (sysconfig, rc.*, init , etc..) I know SVR4 pretty well, but can't seem to get a good conceptual grasp on *BSD based booting. 4. Is the 4.4BSD documentation set (5 books) any good? Thanks very much for any help. josh theron@tyme.visi.com "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." --Calvin
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